Baby-Led feeding as opposed to spoon-fed

Hey, I know a lot of LO's are starting solids now or in the near future. Anyone plan on skipping the spoon feeding and go straight to Baby-led feedings? Just read a study conducted and I never even knew about baby-led.

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I never heard of it. How do you do it? I am a little confused. Do you just give them things they can eat themselves? I did buy one of those teether food feeder things. I also have not started solids, opting to wait until 6 months. If you do this method do you have to wait longer, or just give them things in the feeder that they can hold on to?

The idea is to give them options, let them choose what and how much they want to eat.

I'm probably not doing it 100% because I'm choosing the foods one by one for now and letting him have at it. When he gets a bit older and has chompers and can eat a wider variety of foods, I'll let him sit there and pick.

Same here, I'm waiting for 6 months and according to experts, you can skip the pureed foods and opt for fresh fruits and veggies. They say you would cut them into large strips and let them chew on it. I too have one of those teether food mesh things so I was thinking of doing that. I'd feel a little safer doing it that way. I think this is really big outside of the U.S. which is why, we may have not heard of it.

Of course, the food steamer/puree machine arrive in the mail today, lol. Still, I wanna try both in case one does not work out.